An Iranian Engineering Student Sees Opportunity and Paranoia

When terrorists strike, disaster-relief officials must respond quickly, usually in accordance with some predetermined plan. Bijan Khazai, an Iranian Ph.D. student in civil engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, hopes to help develop models to aid response efforts. The events of September 11, he says, are reshaping the field of civil engineering, and his own path.

Q. Has the field of civil engineering changed since September 11?

A. As a group, we kind of chase

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